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    <city>New York</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-05-07</end-on>
    <full-description>Get More Than Your Average Feature Tour
Rather than run through a simple list of new features, this lecture-style workshop will highlight key workflow needs, which will improve collaboration between designer and programmer, freelancer and client, and teacher and student. Our goal is to leave you with an immediate grasp of where to go next.

No Fluff, No Filler. Just 3 Fast-Paced Hours of Integrated CS3 Workflows (free with coupon code DE0507):

DESIGN
Photoshop and Illustrator Integration 
Discover new and improved round-trip editing options, including non-destructive edits and filters.

Metadata and Batch Processing with Bridge
Discover that Bridge, the ultimate CS3 hub, is far more than just another image browser.

Rapid Prototyping with Fireworks

INTERACTIVE
Flash Integration with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. Dramatically improve designer/programmer collaboration with Flash's enhanced image importers.

ActionScript 3.0 Migration Highlights
Smooth the potentially significant learning curve when switching from ActionScript 1 or 2 to the new, fast, and powerful ActionScript 3.0. We'll cover some of the most important architectural and syntax changes in the new language to get you up and running faster.

Using Flash CS3 Components
Take advantage of the performance and file-size improvements of the new Flash CS3 Components, completely re-written in ActionScript 3.0. See how to use select components, with and without code, and even how to skin them for a custom look.

Using Flash Video
Learn how to encode video, capitalize on true full-screen playback, and add Section 508 accessible captions with unprecedented ease.

Brought to you by FMA and presented by the author/co-author of:
CS3 Web Workflow Guide (Adobe)
CS3 Design Workflow Guide (Adobe)
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional: Video Training Book (Lynda.com/Peachpit)
Learning ActionScript 3 (O'Reilly)
Flash 8: Projects for Learning Animation and Interactivity (O'Reilly)
The Director Xtras Book (Ventana/Coriolis)</full-description>
    <id type="integer">213</id>
    <region>NY</region>
    <short-description>Rich Shupe, author of Flash 8: Projects for Learning Animation (O'Reilly), is hosting a half-day Creative Suite 3 workshop (free with coupon code DE0507).</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-05-06</start-on>
    <title>Free CS3 Workshop in New York Sun 5/6</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://fmaonline.com/shop</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/213</url>
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    <tag-string>adobe, cs3, flash, indesign, photoshop</tag-string>
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  <event>
    <city>San Francisco</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-10-26</end-on>
    <full-description>Now grab the chance to listen to, learn from and mingle with your favorite New Riders authors and the most respected professionals in the Web design industry at Voices That Matter: Web Design, a conference hosted by New Riders.

As a Web designer, you understand the challenges you face. Gone are the days when a good grasp of HTML and some straightforward usability knowledge would get the job done. Now your clients want to know that you're comfortable with CSS, XML, Ajax, Web standards, interaction design, information architecture, interface design, Search Engine Optimization, Flash, Flex, JavaScript, mobile design, mash-ups and much more.

At Voices That Matter: Web Design, our lineup of speakers, including Jakob Nielsen, Steve Krug, Jeremy Keith, and many more, will teach you new techniques; some will show you how to avoid the potholes and pitfalls in how-to sessions; still others will inspire you to try new pathways in creative, energizing, thought-provoking, idea-driven sessions.

Entertaining, informative, authoritative, but most of all, inspiring, Voices That Matter: Web Design will bring you face-to-face with the authors whose books have shaped your career.

Register now at www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2007!</full-description>
    <id type="integer">315</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>Listen to, learn from and mingle with your favorite New Riders authors and the most respected professionals in the Web design industry, including Jakob Nielsen, Steve Krug, and Jeremy Keith and more.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-10-22</start-on>
    <title>Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2007</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/315</url>
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    <tag-string>ajax, conference, css, design, dreamweaver, flash, graphic design, html, javascript, photoshop, search engine optimization, web, web design, xml</tag-string>
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  <event>
    <city>Boston</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-05-22</end-on>
    <full-description>CINCINNATI &#8211; April 23 &#8211; The 2008 HOW Design Conference is coming to Boston&#8217;s Hynes Convention Center May 18-21. The annual creativity, business and technology conference for graphic designers, the HOW Conference will feature 59 speakers, 60+ sessions and 10 three-hour workshops. 

According to HOW magazine editor Bryn Mooth, &#8220;the HOW Conference is a wonderful opportunity for designers to develop their design careers, hone their business skills, get their creative juices flowing and network with thousands of fellow designers.&#8221;

Many industry experts and well-known designers will present at this year&#8217;s Conference, including Allan Haley of Monotype Imaging, House Industries&#8217; Ken Barber, design entrepreneur Charles S. Anderson, Adobe&#8217;s Russell Brown and Julieanne Kost, plus Robynne Raye and Michael Strassburger of Modern Dog Design Co. 

Attendees can choose from sessions in seven tracks: Creativity &amp; Inspiration, Design Disciplines, Business &amp; Management, Career Development, In-House Issues, Technology &amp; Production and HOW Learning Center. 

The Conference will also feature Boston Design Studio Tours, which allow attendees to tour these six local studios: Arnold Worldwide, Catapult Thinking, Sametz Blackstone Associates, Seltzer, Silverscape and Visual Dialogue.

The HOW Conference is expected to attract more than 3,000 graphic designers, art directors, creative directors, illustrators and other design professionals from around the world. 

The 2008 HOW Design Conference is presented by HOW, the creativity, business and technology magazine for graphic designers. HOW is published by F+W Publications, Inc. in Cincinnati, OH.

For registration information, call (800) 436-8700 or (513) 531-2690 ext. 1450; fax 
(513) 531-0798; email howconference@fwpubs.com or visit HOWconference.com.
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">463</id>
    <region>MA</region>
    <short-description>The 2008 HOW Design Conference is coming to Boston&#8217;s Hynes Convention Center May 18-21. </short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-05-18</start-on>
    <title>HOW Design Conference</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.howconference.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/463</url>
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    <tag-string>2d, 3d, adobe, graphic design, information architecture, mad skills, paper, photography, photoshop, technology, training</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Nashville</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-06-14</end-on>
    <full-description>As a Web designer, you understand the challenges you face. Gone are the days when a good grasp of HTML and some straightforward usability knowledge would get the job done. Now your clients want to know that you're comfortable with CSS, XML, Ajax, Web standards, interaction design, information architecture, interface design, Search Engine Optimization, Flash, Flex, JavaScript, mobile design, mash-ups and much more.

At Voices That Matter: Web Design, our lineup of speakers, including Steve Krug, Garr Reynolds, Jeremy Keith, and many more, will teach you new techniques; some will show you how to avoid the potholes and pitfalls in how-to sessions; still others will inspire you to try new pathways in creative, energizing, thought-provoking, idea-driven sessions.

Entertaining, informative, authoritative, but most of all, inspiring, Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference will bring you face-to-face with the authors whose books have shaped your career.

Register now at www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2008!
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">433</id>
    <region>TN</region>
    <short-description>You've read their books. Now you're ready for more. Come join the conversation at the Voices that Matter: Web Design Conference coming to the Loews Vanderbilt in Nashville this June! </short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-06-10</start-on>
    <title>Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/2008</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/433</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/433/weblogo.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>ajax, conference, css, design, dreamweaver, flash, garr reynolds, graphic design, html, javascript, new riders, photoshop, search engine optimization, steve krug, voices that matter, web, web design, xml</tag-string>
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